How to Use rodent in a Sentence

rodent

noun
  • The fluffy white rodent was big enough to fit in the palm of his hand.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The virus is spread in the rodents’ urine and droppings, the CDC explains.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • And if the woodchuck was not your rodent of choice, there were rats.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The claim: Chihuahua are not dogs but a type of large rodent.
    — Laura Peters, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
  • The longer the rodents stayed by the water cooler, the more sharp waves that occurred in the brain.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2024
  • But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • At one point in the clip, the rodents start to slow down and break formation.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • The capybara is the world's largest rodent and a close relative of the guinea pig.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Get ahead of rodents When the weather turns cold, mice and rats search for ways to stay warm.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • While rare, the virus can also spread through a rodent's bite or scratch.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The most common type of rodent to carry it in the U.S. is the deer mouse, the doctor noted.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Did this rodent revenant cross a stygian void to haunt us yet again?
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Invasive mammals, like rodents, are known to feed on the eggs and fledglings of the Azores bullfinch.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • So can the rattlesnake, which detects the heat that the rodent is giving off.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • From capybara — the world’s largest rodent — to jaguars, caiman and countless bird species.
    — Palabra, oregonlive, 26 May 2022
  • Loud Mouse is about the story of rodent sisters Dee and Cara Lee.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The melomys, a small white-flecked rodent, lived on an island near the tip of the Great Barrier Reef.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The crawl space was littered with feces, dead rodents, and mold.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The latter, part of the rodent species, have large front teeth that can crack through a Brazil nut and can jump as high as six feet.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The rodent is known as gloscho in the Apache language and is only hunted in the winter months.
    — Shaena Montanari, azcentral, 17 June 2020
  • When Bushnell first came up with the concept of the restaurant, there were no plans to use a rodent as the mascot.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Aside from the rodent, police found body armor and meth.
    — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In one, a woman drives while the shadowy rodent sits in the passenger seat.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The state shut Popeye’s a second time on Nov. 10 for more rodent droppings near the men’s room.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Now, the researchers want to look at humans to see if the rodent research holds up in ourselves.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The original comics version of Weasel was a man, not a rodent.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Today, Joe is still a wrinkly rodent with a taste for root veggies.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 May 2021
  • When the rodents still failed to appear, their nimble lawyer had a second defense at the ready.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The ride, Disney’s first to be based on its eponymous rodent, opened a year ago in Disney World.
    — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021

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